Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

98 reviews

kayfab's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Drug use, Body shaming, and Panic attacks/disorders

alisonfaith426's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Addiction, Fatphobia, and Alcoholism

pmhandley's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.5

This book is best when it's a memoir. The author is a fascinating and funny person and she has a lot of interesting stories and wisdom. When it steers into broad self-help it gets a bit iffier. Glennon Doyle has great advice if you are very similar to Glennon Doyle, which is a very specific demographic. I enjoyed her insights, but large portions of this book it was apparent it was Not For Me. I actually found the later parts of the book much more enjoyable than the earlier ones, I think because it just took me awhile to adjust to the author's voice. Some of the stories the author uses about her kids made me uneasy, just because they often required a certain suspension of disbelief and because Doyle has a tendency to project her own motivations onto even innocuous things her children say. (Also, I rolled my eyes a little at the story of her daughter trying out for a travel soccer team, because while heartwarming that she made the team with little experience, how many kids get to intensely train with ABBY FREAKIN WAMBACH to prepare?) The overuse of metaphors in this book was a bit much. Some just didn't really work and were a real stretch. But it's a pretty quick, amusing read.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder

stephensjo's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.75

This books put into words a lot feels and experience many of us have gone through. It’s a fun one to get the highlighter out with.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction and Eating disorder

readwithkel's review

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.25

This book lives up to the hype. It’s a collection of stories and anecdotes tied to themes about being human. I really, really enjoyed this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Eating disorder

lovetlr's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Eating disorder

courtneys317's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Addiction, and Drug use

laurazolnoski's review

inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Addiction

deetabz's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Addiction, Bullying, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Grief, Alcohol, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Xenophobia, Racism, and Sexism

Minor: Fatphobia, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Gun violence, Police brutality, and Sexual content

mticereads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Eating disorder